The USA TODAY story reports havoc in Asheville, North Carolina, from a storm that originated with heavy rain in Los Angeles a week prior. Climate change deniers should pay attention to what California has wrought, because we don't do enough to stop global warming.

Gov. Brown even admitted we need more forest management to curtail fires caused by climate change. Look at what we did when 6,000 firefighters allowed 96,000 acres to burn because they just couldn't stop it, and all the heat and carbon dioxide emissions from that effort. Add to this the fuel used to support Thanksgiving travel and parades and it surely overwhelms the climate system. I am not sure what tear gas and the border effort has caused, but it must also be huge.

It is also not clear how the storm we caused got to North Carolina, but maybe the wind turbines to create clean energy helped push it along. Since we put 2 feet of snow on the ground in the South and cut the power to 400,000 residents, I can imagine the lawyers are discussing a class-action suit against us. Who knows?

Bob Anderson, Ventura

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